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...winds. But he builds sympathy by the low-key, unstylized way he plays the love scenes. Agenin, too, is better at intimacy than poetic elegance. She is a wonder, though, at dispensing petits fours and nasty court gossip to a fine pair of dandies whose wigs make them resemble Bert Lahr playing the Cowardly Lion. When she leans back and says lovingly to poor, scoldy Alceste, "How boring you are!" while deliciously wriggling her toes, the night belongs to France. Molière and the audience are best served by Comédie Veteran Michel Duchaussoy as Alceste...
Camus's Last Judgment In your review of the biography of Al bert Camus [March 19] you stated that one sentence in The Fall, Camus's last published novel, sums up a life and a work...
Attorney General Griffin Bell had argued for months that his own people in the Justice Department could objectively investigate the loans, upwards of $4.6 million, made by Bert Lance's Atlanta bank to the Carter peanut warehouse in Plains, Ga. It was a hard argument to sustain. Not only was Bell a Democrat, of course, but he was an old friend of the Carters' and of Lance. Faced with increasing criticism, Bell last week finally decided to put the probe into other hands. His choice was highly qualified: Paul Jerome Curran, 45, who not only is a Republican...
...those early months of his Administration, his appreciation of the difference between the importance of such acts in the White House and the tolerant Southern view of human frailty afforded family and longtime friends was not fully developed. When his confidant Bert Lance got into trouble, Carter could not divorce himself from one he knew so well. Yet these lapses have been minor. Carter's basic integrity has remained intact...
...situation. Since last fall, federal investigators have been examining the Carters' business records and the N.B.G.'s loan accounts to see if any illegal activity was involved in handling loans of more than $4.6 million to the Carter business. The loans were arranged by then N.B.G. President Bert Lance, the close friend whom Jimmy Carter later made Director of the Office of Management and Budget in Washington. One question was whether any of the funds had been used illegally in Jimmy Carter's campaign for the presidency. So far, no evidence has turned up that any money...